Mothorpe, Chris; Hanson, Andrew; Schnier, Kurt - In: The Annals of Regional Science 51 (2013) 3, pp. 833-870
Between 1945 and 2007, the United States lost 19.3 % of its agricultural land. Over the same time period, the construction of the 42,500 mile interstate highway system lowered transportation costs and opened large tracts of land for development. This paper assesses the impact of the interstate...
